Parker Quartet

USC Quartet-in-Residence

Parker Quartet Chamber Music Residency

The USC School of Music continues its first chamber music residency with a series
of public events, school outreach and special opportunities for chamber music enthusiasts
offered in fall and spring.

The Grammy Award-winning Parker Quartet has distinguished itself as one of the preeminent
ensembles of its generation and has been hailed by The New York Times as “something
extraordinary.”

The University of South Carolina is fortunate to have the Parker Quartet as USC Quartet-in-Residence.
Also named the Blodgett Quartet-in-Residence at Harvard University, the world-renowned
quartet members Daniel Chong and Ying Xue, violin, Jessica Bodner, viola, and Kee-Hyun
Kim, cello, will return to Columbia again in November 2015 and March 2016 for coachings,
master classes, outreach and public concerts.

High school students got an extraordinary opportunity to work with the world-renowned
Parker Quartet during USC’s Chamber Music Day and Competition. See the winners announcement.

Master Classes and Coachings

Schedule coming soon

Outreach

Schedule coming soon

The Quartet began its professional touring career in 2002 and garnered international
acclaim in 2005, winning the Concert Artists Guild Competition and the Grand Prix
and Mozart Prize at the Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition in France.
In 2009, Chamber Music America awarded the Quartet the prestigious biennial Cleveland
Quartet Award for the 2009-2011 seasons.

Parker Quartet members, violinists Daniel Chong and Ying Xue, violist Jessica Bodner
and cellist Kee-Hyun Kim, will present outreach and informance programs to Charleston
area schools during their residency at USC. The Quartet is known for their k-12 educational
programs, which are based on age group, musical experience and curriculum and help
to educate young people about string quartets and what a composer does.

Robert Jesselson, professor of cello at USC, said, "I grew up in New York City having
the opportunity to hear all the great string quartets of that generation. I would
love for people in Columbia to have the same kind of opportunity to experience the
exquisite joys of chamber music. The string quartet literature is the most rarefied,
sophisticated and intimate in the repertoire. It draws the listener into a world that
is sublime and intricate, and expresses the whole range of human emotions. It is a
delicate but intense world in miniature."

This residency has been made possible by a grant from the Provost's office. For more
information about the Parker Quartet, visit their website.

Saturday, March 19, 2016

Chamber Music Day and Competition

Be a Donor to USC Chamber Music

Be a donor to USC Chamber Music for a minimum of $100 per person and receive a complimentary
ticket to the March 17 concert and invitations to private receptions with the artists.
A portion of your donation is tax deductible. Checks payable to USC Chamber Music.

CHALLENGE GIFT: The School of Music has has received an anonymous $100,000 challenge gift to create
a permanent Endowment for this String Quartet Residency. Our goal is to match this
gift dollar for dollar in order to receive the full amount, bringing the total Endowment
to $200,000. Please let us know if you would be interested in helping us to meet this
challenge!